Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 01:19:39 -0400 From: Barney Wolff <barney@databus.com> To: Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com> Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Silly problem has me stumped Message-ID: <20011024011939.A71324@tp.databus.com> In-Reply-To: <87lmi1n6h5.fsf@pooh.int>; from kirk@strauser.com on Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 08:59:18PM -0500 References: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0110240123240.98768-100000@spaz.catonic.net> <87lmi1n6h5.fsf@pooh.int>
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On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 08:59:18PM -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote: > > Well, we have a whole public /24. Only the routing block is private, which > I'm sure will seem like a better idea once I coerce this $@#!() FreeBSD box > to bend to my will. If you have a whole /24, and you need to do stuff other than ping and traceroute as a client on your gateway machine (which your original message did NOT say), offer 1.2.3.0/30 to your ISP to use for the link instead of the 1918 addresses. I've seen lots of cases where the ISP side of the link got an address from the customer's block. Or, of course, you could just do what you need from one of your other 253 hosts. Who's your ISP, so we know who to avoid? Credentials or not, using 1918 space like this is dumb, and a violation of 1918 itself. Your customers are going to get odd results on traceroutes to you, if there's anybody filtering 1918 between you - are you prepared for the help desk load? -- Barney Wolff "Nonetheless, ease and peace had left this people still curiously tough. They were, if it came to it, difficult to daunt or to kill; and they were, perhaps, so unwearyingly fond of good things not least because they could, when put to it, do without them, and could survive rough handling by grief, foe, or weather in a way that astonished those who did not know them well and looked no further than their bellies and their well-fed faces." J.R.R.T. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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